Story of a Secret State - My Report to the World

Informationen zum Autor Karski was his nom de guerre; he had been born Jan Kozielewski! the youngest of eight children! in Lodz! Poland's second-largest city! on April 24! 1914. Karski was a liaison officer of the Polish underground! who infiltrated both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German concentration camp and then carried the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to a mostly disbelieving Anthony Eden and Franklin Roosevelt. Klappentext 'Insistently asks the question: What would you do? Would you fight! or acquiesce! or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave ... an astonishing testament of survival' Ben Macintyre! author of Operation Mincemeat It is 1939. Jan Karski! a brilliant young Polish student! enjoys a life of parties and pleasure. Then war breaks out and his familiar world is destroyed. Now he must live under a new identity! in the resistance. And! in a secret mission that could change the course of the war! he must risk his own life to try and save those of millions. Zusammenfassung 'Insistently asks the question: What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave ... an astonishing testament of survival' Ben Macintyre , author of Operation Mincemeat It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties and pleasure. Then war breaks out and his familiar world is destroyed. Now he must live under a new identity, in the resistance. And, in a secret mission that could change the course of the war, he must risk his own life to try and save those of millions.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Karski
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.03.2012
• EAN: 9780141196671
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119667-1
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; PENGUIN PRESS; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, HISTORY / Military / World War II, Poland, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949